Geography Exam Past Questions and Answers | JAMB, WAEC and NECO

Geography is the study of the Earth's landscapes, features, inhabitants, and natural phenomena. It aims to understand the locations of various elements, the reasons for their presence, and how they evolve and transform over time.

• Question 71: The least geographical factor that determined town sites in the past was the? Options:
  A) existence of fertile alluvial plains
  B) presence of indented coastlined sheltered from waves
  C) existence of communication networks
  D) presence of a river gorge
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 72:

  

  Name the geographical phenomenon happening in the diagram above

  Options:
  A) Lunar eclipse
  B) Solar eclipse
  C) Solar radiation
  D) Solar solstice
  E) spring tide
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 73: A linear settlement is most likely to develop on a? Options:
  A) plain
  B) routeway
  C) hill top
  D) highland
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 74:

  When weathering occurs on hill slopes, rock debris usually pile up at the bottom of the hill slope to form

  Options:
  A) creep
  B) levee
  C) pebbles
  D) scrcee
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 75:

  Which of the following gradients is the steepest?

  Options:
  A) 1 in 134
  B) 1 in 351
  C) 1 in 531
  D) 1 in 315
  E) 1 in 153
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 76: Which of the following areas is noted for the highest production of soft wood? Options:
  A) The Amazon Basin
  B) The Ganges-Indus Basin
  C) The St.Lawrence Basin
  D) The Rhine Basin
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 77: The critical temperature at which the air being cooled becomes saturated with vapor is known as the? Options:
  A) condensation trail
  B) relative humidity
  C) dew point
  D) wet adiabat
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 78: Only one of these statements about West Africa is true. Which is it? Options:
  A) Climate and agricultural belts as well as political regions in West Africa generally run east to west
  B) Seasonal production of crops in the interior of West Africa is due more to the constraints of rainfall than to temperature
  C) Nigeria alone has just half as much population as the rest of West Africa put together
  D) The coastal regions of West Africa do not in any way stand in contrast to the inland regions
  E) Inter-regional trade in West Africa is ompossible because the countries of West Africa have similar agricultural products
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 79: A form of chemical weathering is? Options:
  A) fragmentation
  B) exfoliation
  C) carbonation
  D) shattering
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 80:

  

  There are more settlements to the south because the

  Options:
  A) Land to the north being more fertile is reserved for farming
  B) Areas to the north are liable to flooding
  C) Terrain to the south is less rugged
  D) North is more prone to river blindness
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  The correct answer is C .